Klarinet Archive - Posting 000318.txt from 1996/11

From: Jim Harper <jharper@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Rough, smooth, dark, bright
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 11:30:14 -0500

Jonathan Cohler wrote:
>
> Instruments with a higher cutoff frequency are uniformly categorized as
> "brighter" in blind tests, and lower cutoff frequency gets categorized as
> "darker". In fact, large changes in cutoff frequency on a particular note
> of an instrument is immediately recognized by the listener as a change in
> the fundamental "darkness" of the tone quality as well.
>
>
> -------------------------
> Jonathan Cohler
> cohler@-----.net

So may we extrapolate that as we age and lose high frequency hearing
all horns will sound "darker" to us?

--
Jim Harper, LCSW
UAMS Dept. of Pediatrics
Little Rock, AR
jharper@-----.edu